On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:50:41PM -0500, lynn wrote:
> i have a lot of questions if this happens, or isps try to implement.
It's occured to me that one way to render such a system useless (or at
least less useful) is to flood it with false positives. It should be
possible to reverse-engineer the detection criteria and then distribute
software which does something like this:
while (1) {
listen for a connection from any X in the pool of peers
select a random snippet A from X's bucket
receive A from X
sleep random time
see if there are any X's accepting connection
select a random snippet B from the local bucket
send B to X
sleep random time
}
I'm thinking that the bucket should be filled with lots of interesting
things, including random data stamped with *their* watermarks.
Perhaps for maximum effect such a program should be distributed with
a snippet of code that prevents it from executing before a certain time --
so that when millions of instances of it go live, they all do so at once.
Just an idle thought while I try to get Monday morning caffeine
levels up to "functional". ;-)
---Rsk
